Pennywise the Frown posted:

"Wenches, go forth."

deep dish peat moss posted:

Ok I guess I was wrong about ultra-wealthy but his dad was the drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis and he grew up in a neighborhood where the average home price today is anywhere from $2-12 million, so I'd say he counts as a nepo baby.

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

Kanye dickriders are beautiful.

R.L. Stine posted:

i like kool a.d.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

that's just called being rich
it's nepotism when your parents use their connections to important people to get you advantages in life (rather than just using money, which is regular old capitalism)

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

that's just called being rich
it's nepotism when your parents use their connections to important people to get you advantages in life (rather than just using money, which is regular old capitalism)

Professor Shark posted:

It was really disappointing to learn that a lot of the artists I like are just rich kids who were able to get richer thanks to their parent’s money. Ed the Sock used to call out bands cosplaying poor/ working class whose members grew up in mansions.

quote:

Hi, former childhood advanced violinist (38y/o). I am looking for your advice on a piece to learn to win back my ex. I want to prove my love and commitment to her by learning a piece and playing it in the street outside her window in June. She always wanted to hear me play. This will be healthy for me as well because if she rejects me, I will have some closure and a new connection with the violin to nurture.

So far have considered Praeludium and Allegro because it's significant to me, and probably many childhood violinists... I question my ability to relearn it fast enough. But I also do like the idea of suffering a bit to learn.

I love Bruch violin Concerto #1 movement 2. It's very expressive, but also long and I dont know if it works unaccompanied.. I have not played all of it before.

I like Beethoven Romance #2 in f, but very tired of it from playing it so much in the past.

Any recommendations of your favorites? I would rather it be very expressive than very technical, but some technicality is good too.

(Thank you for the beautiful constructive responses from those who gave them, including the cautionary ones)

Thank you!! 😊

reddit commenter posted:

Start by asking yourself, "Is this actually a gesture she'll appreciate?"

This is your ex -- how long has it been since you've broken up? Has she given any kind of indication that she wants to get back together? Are you still friends? If you're not still friends, does she still respond in a friendly manner to your attempts to contact her and if not, is this a desperation move to try to get her attention?

Where does she live, and how will her neighbors feel about some violinist playing outside her window? Is she likely to call the cops on you for trespassing, or consider your gesture to be stalker-y?

Your post seems awfully me-centered rather than her-centered, so I'd ask yourself what she really wants. At the very least, I'd search for a piece of music that is meaningful to her in some way. (Not just "what she likes", but something that speaks to her specifically.)

The loving OP posted:

I actually want to tell you the story but I don't know if I can handle putting myself out there like that to cruel strangers of the internet. I am considering everything you are saying and I hear your critique loud and clear. She does not want to hear from me, but she also told me she still loves me. So, I am going to give her space for a month or two. During that time she is sure to have solidified how she feels about me for good or ill.

I will play for a few minutes and it will be clear if she likes it or not. If she does not like it I will go. She lives in Hollywood where there is a ton of noise, and people will probably find what I'm doing cute or entertaining.

Are we not violinists who feel passion? May God strike me down if earnestly playing some notes for someone I care deeply about is wrong. I can think of few things more meaningful in life. I am ready to give my life to her. If she doesn't want me I will accept it.

That Works posted:

nice

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

Why the poo poo is this stupid drake/kendrick beef showing up in the most arbitrary feeds?

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

that's just called being rich
it's nepotism when your parents use their connections to important people to get you advantages in life (rather than just using money, which is regular old capitalism)

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

Why the poo poo is this stupid drake/kendrick beef showing up in the most arbitrary feeds?

goblin week posted:

Internet Old One posted:

They gotta tell their shareholders they're sitting on an unscrapable treasure trove of LLM training data with new signups every minute.

Internet Old One posted:

I like that Reddit tries to block VPNs now. So now the process for viewing a reddit link is getting the blocked page, changing vpn locations, changing the url to old.reddit.com and then finally viewing.

But they still don't require email verification.

They gotta tell their shareholders they're sitting on an unscrapable treasure trove of LLM training data with new signups every minute.

repiv posted:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/02/reddit-has-already-booked-203m-in-revenue-licensing-data-for-ai-training/

that's probably why VPNs are getting blocked, they're trying to keep scrapers running from datacenter IP addresses out

PhazonLink posted:

asking just in general not just for reddit, when did account creation policies no longer require doing a complete email verification, like many account creation processes are just enter an address or phone# and password and thats it.

no waiting for an email with a link or a text with a passnum.

PhazonLink posted:

asking just in general not just for reddit, when did account creation policies no longer require doing a complete email verification, like many account creation processes are just enter an address or phone# and password and thats it.

no waiting for an email with a link or a text with a passnum.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Reddit used to really like child sex abuse images. I mean really like them.

Letting people make account without even a pretence of identifying themselves is a feature not a bug.

Grimdude posted:

We should all be thankful that the Drake drama has overshadowed the awful "women choose the bear" discourse.

Borscht posted:

I am also a stupid whore so I can’t really talk.

PhazonLink posted:

*this is another thing, closing/deleting accounts used to be easy, but now its not.